ACCA - 13-Territory Inspection Department: This has continually
been the most interesting show I've been watching this season. It
wasn't always clear where it was going (and it's still not), but it
had such a sense of style, atmosphere, and character that that didn't
matter. And while I wasn't really looking, in its quiet, atmospheric
way the show has covered a huge amount of plot territory, especially
in the past few episodes. I can't wait to see where it goes next.

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: This is still a comedy but it's a
lot more than that too; at its heart it's about family. I don't
like all of it, but enough of every episode lands that it's great.
It has a real mastery of quiet moments, background things, and
little gestures.

In ongoing shows, March comes in like a Lion has continued to be
quietly great. There are less fireworks now than there used to be, but
more development and progression. Shimada has been a great addition to
the cast.

Not for me:

Little Witch Academia: In the end, this is basically a kids show
(that's made by Trigger, and is airing at midnight because
apparently the TV anime model is fundamentally broken).
There's nothing wrong with LWA being a kid's show, but kids shows
generally don't really appeal to me and LWA has not been the
exception.

This is kind of what I was worried about before LWA started airing, although
not exactly it. In the end it was less the cliched stuff and more the
general style that didn't work for me. I have a bunch of issues with
what happened in the episodes I watched, but in the end all of them
come from looking at a kids show with the eyes of an adult.

Dropped:

Blue Exorcist - Kyoto Saga: In the end, the slow pacing killed
it for me.
This has the leisurely execution of a show that knows it's adapting
a manga arc and is thus ultimately not particularly going anywhere.
I like the characters, but no.

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 2: Episode 4 was all about
Darkness and I hate what the show does with Darkness, so I bounced
off it and
then realized I wasn't particularly interested in the show as a whole.
The show had one core joke and mostly wore it out in the first season;
the things it did in the first three episodes of the second season
weren't enough to keep me (and some of them I disliked).

I have continued to not watch Saga of Tanya the Evil, and what I've
heard about recent developments have convinced me that this is the right
decision (partly because I'm on Tanya's side in one small aspect of the
show, although
everything else I've heard about her makes me think I'd dislike her).

In the past I've felt antsy when I was down to this few shows I was
watching. This season I have no such issues so far, and I think that
that's partly because the three remaining shows are all really good
ones. They each leave me happily contented when I watch an episode
and I eagerly anticipate the next one when it gets close.